Cult Car - The Ford Capri (DVD)

The Car You Always Promised Yourself

Advantages: Looked like an expensive sports car
Disadvantages: Didn't perform like an expensive sports car!

~ ~ The title of this review ?The Car You Always Promised Yourself? was part of the Ford advertising campaign for the Ford Capri when it was first released back in the late 1960?s and early 1970?s. It was designed to appeal to the hearts (and loins) of a motoring public at the time when the best affordable cars the motoring public were being offered in the UK were awful dogs of automobiles like the Austin 1100, Hillman Avenger, and Morris Marina. Indeed, my one and only Ford Capri replaced a bloody dreadful Austin 1100, which was about as much fun to drive as a three-wheeled bicycle! ~ ~ The Ford Capri was produced at the old Ford Halewood factory in Liverpool, and also over in Germany, and when it was first unveiled to the public at the Brussels Motor Show in January, 1969 it caused a major sensation in the motoring press. Based ...

the_mad_cabbie 11.12.2004 (12.12.2004) · Read full review
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Review of Ford Capri 1.3

Ford capri

Advantages: Wicked looking, fast car
Disadvantages: Tail happy, hard to find a decent one

Always loved capris but they arent without theyre faults, look great and certainly turn heads on the roads. The back ends tend to fishtail a bit too much especially in the rain, putting a bit of extra weight in the boot tends to solve this problem, very fun to powerslide though. Tickford also made a variation of this model but only ever made 100 of them, they are based on the 2.8i. You can expect to pick one up today at a reasonable price, youd probably be better fof getting one from ebay on the cheap and fixing it up yourself. The capri is made in britain which is a good point on its own, one of the best cars to roll off a british production line. Its speed still rivavls modern cards today with 0-60 being as fast as 6 seconds with a little help. The capris are quite high maintenance however rusting easily and the engines often ...

Luke1212 20.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Ford Capri 2.8 Injection

Capri Crime

Advantages: thrilling, brill twist at the end
Disadvantages: none

A well-off English woman is married to a not so well-off Italian nobleman and has acquired the name and title of Duchess Lola d?Acquaviva, quite impressive, but unfortunately her marriage is in tatters. She lives with her dog in her in-laws? villa on Capri, her husband works and stays mainly in Naples visiting her only occasionally, the persons she sees most often is her gay Italian neighbour and her cleaning lady. To occupy her mind she decides to write a book, she doesn?t have any special interests or qualifications, but the neglected villa adjoining hers, which once belonged to a well-known foreign aristocrat and paedophile, gives her the idea to write about this man. In order to get into the mood of the period, the turn of the last but one century, and to learn more about the man she sends an email to the Englishman Simon Parks ...

MALU 09.05.2009 · Read full review
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